O My servant! My holy, My divinely ordained Revelation may
be likened unto an ocean in whose depths are concealed innumerable pearls of
great price, of surpassing luster. It is the duty of every seeker to bestir
himself and strive to attain the shores of this ocean, so that he may, in
proportion to the eagerness of his search and the efforts he hath exerted,
partake of such benefits as have been pre- ordained in God's irrevocable and
hidden Tablets....
(Baha’u’llah, ‘Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh’; The
Compilation of Compilations, vol. I, The Importance of Deepening our Knowledge
of the Faith)
